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T1  - Counterfactuals and Causal Explanation in Historiography 
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UR  - URN:NBN:fi-fe2012112310011; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/37618 
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A1  - Seppälä, Päivi 
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PB  - Helsingfors universitet 
Y1  - 2012 
LA  - eng 
AB  - The thesis deals with the use of counterfactuals in historiography from the point of view of causal explanation. It studies the various roles that counterfactual claims and counterfactual reasoning play in causal explanation and causal thinking in historiography. The aim is to defend the use of counterfactual  what if -questions and inferences in the context of causal explanation and to create methodological guidelines for that use. The theory that is used in this thesis to explicate the role co... 
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KW  - Theoretical Philosophy; Teoreettinen filosofia; Teoretisk filosofi 
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